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From: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (christopher wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Repeat only for certain background
Keywords: repeat
Message-ID: <1824@nvuxr.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 90 19:43:34 GMT
References: <11601@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Reply-To: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (22456-christopher wood)
Organization: Bell Communications Research, NJ
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In article <11601@odin.corp.sgi.com> pbroenen@spanky.corp.sgi.com (Paul Broenen) writes:

>HyperGods,

Please, I'm just a tinkerer...

>I'm moderately familiar with HyperCard, but I haven't yet figured out
>how to handle this problem:  I want to loop through only those cards 
>in my stack which are of a particular background type.  (For aesthetic
>reasons, I want to leave the screen unlocked so the cards will page by
>during the loop.)  I have a Main card, Help card, etc. which I don't 
>want in the loop.

>Is there a clean, non-cludge way of formatting my "repeat" statement
>so that it loops through only one kind of background?

>Thanks!
>Paul

How about 
   Repeat for count = 1 to number of cards of bg "xyz"
     go next card of bg "xyz"
   end repeat

I usually think of these things, type them into unix, and then test them
(multifinder is wonderful!)

Change the "for" above to "with", and it'll work.


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Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!nvuxr!ccw
                         or ccw@nvuxr.cc.bellcore.com